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Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 22. (a) Portion of plant. ( b ) Ovary (enlarged). Lancashire (A. W.). {c) Portion 
of plant. ( d ) Leaf (enlarged). ( e ) Ovary (enlarged), c to ^ = subvar. moniliformis ; near Southport, Lancashire 
(J. A. W.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 1833; Fellman, 39; v. Heurck et Martinis, vi, 253; Reichenbach, 496, as Spergella 
nodosa ; Schultz {Herb. Norm.), i, 22; Tausch; Wirtgen, x, 563, as Spergella nodosa-, xvii, 950, as Sagina nodosa 
var. pubescens ; Herb. FI. Ingric. i, 121. 
Perennial, laxly caespitose. Shoot glabrous or more or less glandular-pubescent. Primary 
rosettes vernal or aestival, numerous, small. Flowering branches elongate, up to about 16 cm. long, 
leafy to the tip. Leaves mucronate, those of the flowering branches often fascicular owing to 
the growth of the axillary buds, or the axillary buds delayed in development and eventually 
falling to the ground and there germinating. Pedicels erect about 1 cm. long. Flowers protandrous 
about 1 cm. in diameter; July and August. Petals about twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 10. 
Capsule longer than the calyx. Seeds minutely tuberculate. 
(/ 3 ) subvar. glandulosa Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 295 (1896); S. glandtdosa Besser Prim. FI. Galic. 
i, 298 (1809); S', nodosa var. pubescens Mertens und Koch Deutschl. FI. iii, 362 (1831); S. nodosa var. glandulosa 
Ascherson FI. Brandenb. 97 (i860). 
leones : — Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 203, fig. 4965 / 3 , as Spergella nodosa var. glandtdosa. 
Shoot more or less glandular. 
With the eglandular form, as in Somerset, Derbyshire, Perthshire, western Inverness-shire, Orkney, etc. 
Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, central Europe. 
(7) subvar. moniliformis comb. nov. ; Alsine nodosa var. moniliformis Meyer Chlor. Hanov. 206 (1836); 
S. nodosa var. moniliformis Lange Haandb. Danske FI. 317 (1856 — 59). 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 22, c — e. 
Leaf-axils with fascicles of small leaves, which ultimately fall off and take root. 
For an interesting account of the vegetative propagation of this plant, see W. G. Travis in Journ. Bot. xlix, 270 (1911). 
Devonshire, Hampshire, Norfolk, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Lancashire, Merionethshire, Anglesey, co. Clare : 
co. Galway, co. Donegal, and doubtless elsewhere. 
As the species. 
In marshy places, chiefly on calcareous soils ; in particular, in dune-marshes, fens, lowland 
transitional peat-moors, and wet calcareous grassland ; rarely on wet siliceous grassland ; scattered 
almost throughout the British Isles, but rather local. 
Iceland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, 
Spain, Italy; North America. 
Series ii. Subulatae 
Subulatae nobis. For characters, see page 24. 
British species of Subulatae 
2. S. subulata (see below). Shoot more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaves distinctly 
mucronate. Pedicels about 1*5 — 3x5 cm. long. Flowers pentamerous, about 6 — 8 mm. in diameter. 
3. S. nivalis (p. 27). Shoot glabrous. Leaves submucronate. Pedicels erect about 5 mm. 
long. Flowers pentamerous, about 3 mm. in diameter. 
4. S. saginoides (p. 27). Shoot glabrous. Leaves submucronate. Pedicels about i'5 — 2 - o cm. 
long. Flowers pentamerous or tetramerous, about 4 mm. in diameter. 
2. SAGINA SUBULATA. Plate 23 
Saxifraga graminea pusilla foliis brevioribus crassioribus et succulentioribus Ray Syn. 146 (1690); ed. 3, 
345 (1724). 
Sagina subulata c. B. Presl FI. Sic. i, 158 (1826); Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 122 (1864); Rouy FI. France 
hi, 293 (1896); Sagina procumbens var. /3 L. Sp. PI. 128 (1753)!; Spergula laricina Lightfoot FI. Scot. 244 (1 777 ) 
non L. ; Spergula subulata Swartz in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockholm x, 45, t. 1, fig. 3 (1789); Smith FI. 
Brit. 505 (1800)! 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1082, as Spergula subulata-, Curtis FI. Lond. i, 89, as Spergula saginoides-, 
Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 202, fig. 4963, as Spergella subulata. 
M. III. 
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